EU committee warns Dutch on racism

The Netherlands is in line to be criticised in an EU Committee report on racism and intolerance, the committee’s Deputy Chairman and former Dutch Justice Minister, Winnie Sorgdrager, told ANP.


‘In the Netherlands, public figures make statements which our committee finds unacceptable,’ Sorgdrager said. She was referring to anti-Islam comments made by the country’s far-right parties.

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